Crime disguised by murderers as drowning in canal PAKPATTAN: A college freshman was allegedly murdered by his classmates in Arifwala over a personal grudge, with the suspects later attempting to cover up the crime by staging it as a motorcycle accident. According to police reports, Zahid Farooq, a first-year student at Government Degree College, Pakpattan, was killed by his classmates, Saifur Rehman and Nasibullah. The suspects initially claimed that they were riding a motorcycle
Child Rights in Focus
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Expanded Programme on Immunisation has launched a province-wide vaccination campaign – Big Catch-Up – aimed at immunising children under the age of five against 12 vaccine-preventable childhood diseases. The campaign was inaugurated by chief minister’s adviser for health Ihtisham Ali during a ceremony held at Maulvi Ameer Shah Memorial Hospital on Tuesday. The 12-day campaign will target 78,000 zero-dose children and 1.2 million children who have received one or two
OKARA: An 11-year-old boy was found hanged in his house under mysterious circumstances in Shahzad Colony, Dipalpur. In the first information report (FIR), registered under section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), victim’s uncle Moazzam Ali said his brother Qamar Fayyaz, a Rangers personnel, a resident of Chak 39/4L, and his family, including his younger brother Haseeb and their mother, have been living in their maternal house in Dipalpur city for schooling of
LAHORE: Sheikhupura District Education Authority Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Rana Naeem sought a criminal case against the teacher of a private school for torturing a female student some weeks back. The CEO conducted a hearing of a complaint lodged by the parents of a seventh grade student, Minahil, against the teacher, Ali Jameel, of Al-Fatima Educare Schools for Girls, Kharianwala, Sheikhupura. The minor girl was beaten up by the teacher during the lecture on
Rawalpindi: City Police Officer (CPO) Rawalpindi has urged the citizens to ensure that the children do not violate the ban on kite flying imposed by the provincial government otherwise strict action would be taken against the violators in accordance with the law. A police spokesman said on 16 February that the Rawalpindi district police were conducting raids to net the kite sellers and flyers. He informed that on the special directives of City Police
A girl who was set on fire by her uncle in the Bagh-e-Korangi area succumbed to her injuries at the hospital on 16 February 2025 after battling for her life for a week. Her mother Gulshan had died on the same day of the incident after she was burned alive. The Awami Colony police have failed to arrest the suspect. The incident took place on February 10 in a house located near Bagh-e-Korangi. At
KHYBER: Breaking the shackles of so-called tribal traditions and self-imposed taboos, 17-year-old Wareesha Ameen Afridi of Jamrud has become the first female writer in Khyber tribal district by penning down a novel. A student of psychology at Government Degree College for Girls in Jamrud, she developed a liking for reading fiction and history during her school days which later ‘pushed her’ to pen down her first Urdu novel “Milan”. “I always felt deeply depressed
Poets and children have one thing in common; a sense of wonder. Albert Einstein would protest; don’t exclude the scientists. Their intuitive capability is an undying source of wonder that keeps them going in their pursuit of knowing what seems to be unknowable. With age this sense loosens its grip because of the monotony produced by uniformity which is sine qua non of success in the prevalent socio-economic structures. Sadly, we try our best
Despite laws against child marriages, the legislation and implementation of minimum age laws has been unsatisfactory LAHORE: In Pakistan, men are given precedence over women in nearly all matters. Male guests will be seated first at a family dinner, male students will be selected for accolades and scholarships while male applicants will conventionally be prioritized by recruiters. However, there is one matter where the society has ironically sanctioned women to be given precedence; the
SWAT: Speakers at a workshop on 15th February emphasised the need for professional therapy to help children with hearing and speech impairments regain their skills. The workshop on hearing and speech impairments was organised by Cochlear Implant Welfare Organisation of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in collaboration with the ENT department of Saidu Group of Medical Institutes at the Saidu Medical College. Shahid Ali Khan, mayor of Babuzai tehsil, was the chief guest on the occasion. Speech
NAROWAL: A Class-X girl student was allegedly tortured by the principal for signing a uniform shirt during a school celebration in Muzaffarpur tehsil of Sialkot. According to Adeel Anwar, a resident of Defence Road, his 16-year-old daughter, Warda Adeel, who is a heart patient, was tortured by the principal. He has filed complaints with Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz and the police, seeking justice. Anwar stated that Warda had visited the school on the
BEING a child in this society should not be so hard. But recurrent reports of child abuse — from burying girl children alive to torturing a 12-year-old domestic worker to death for consuming her employers’ chocolate — point to a pervasive malaise. The Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights has, yet again, expressed concern over the escalation in cases of child abduction, murder, rape and trafficking across the country. In 2024, according to the